Kim City- March 27 - Water clarity & deep bite

[Dock-in-it]

Fished this morning between Wolfpen and Baxter. There is a solid mud line on the James side of Pt9 and the White side of pt9 looks good. The water has a lot of brown tint in front of Mill Creek ramp (still have 4 to 5ft of visibility).  As the White and James blend together the Kimberling area should be Ok for the deep bite. 

Fished a creek with plenty of shad (in the gut) around deep trees and was able to catch some nice Ks on a 3.3 swimbait. There was not very many fish around the shad, but just enough to catch a few. 

4 keepers. 

WT 51+

 

[Dutch]

Those are some fatties.  Could that first one be a meanmouth or is it just the light?

[Dock-in-it]

Dutch, I think it a K...But it does have a tinge of mean mouth. 

I caught this one last week and it weighed 3.58#... I  believe it is a mean mouth.

 

[rps]

While the second example clearly is a MM, I think the first is as well.

[Bill Babler]

I was in the same location yesterday and there was a boat on everything. 

Both Perkins Hollow and both sides of Wolf pen had multiple boats by 8 am. 

I only had 3 fish in 5 hours. They were the right kind, just not enough of them. 
You might guess how I caught them. 🤪🤪🤪😀😀

[Dock-in-it]

Bill, did you happen to catch any of those float-n-fly fish that were suspended way up in that 10 to 15ft range?

[Quillback]

Some great fish pics, keep them coming!

[Bill Babler]

Yep, the Jaw and the first LM, my boat was sitting in 106 feet. Trees on the bluff end were in 80’ topping at about 25’. I could see fish suspended over the tops in that 20’-25’ range. 

Not a lot of fish but several. Fly was set at 16’. That’s about as deep as I can set it, without wrapping it around my neck
 

Fished the entire city block run with nothing and went back over it and caught them pretty much back to back. 

Fish with the Spro Phat Fly in it’s mug was the next bluff end similar situation.   They’re not staging up there very strong yet. 

in 3 weeks they will be going and coming and a lot more targets for the little guy. 

 

 

[Bill Babler]

On catching Big fish on a 1/16th. oz. Phat fly, Beck would always say Elephants like peanuts, just goes to show. 

Gosh Bill Beck loved to fish that tiny little bug. 
 

[Dock-in-it]

Forgot to mention the shad kill that has been going for several days. The kill is happening from the shore to what ever depth. The shore line is littered with dead shad (especially behind lighted docks) so perhaps the crawdads are not up shallow. The stained water has lots of shad shallow and plenty out deep. The stained water is soaking up heat and lots of shad are right on the surface.